霩

霩 U+9729, 霩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9729 ← 霨 [U+9728] CJK Unified Ideographs 霪 → [U+972A]

Translingual

Han character

霩 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一月卜木中 (MBYDL), four-corner 1042₇, composition ⿱雨郭)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1377, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42420
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4073, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9729

Chinese

trad.		霩
simp. #		霩
alternative forms		𩇑 𩇊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 霩
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (郭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
郭	*kʷaːɡ
埻	*tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
崞	*kʷaːɡ
椁	*kʷaːɡ
槨	*kʷaːɡ
噋	*tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ
廓	*kʰʷaːɡ
鞹	*kʰʷaːɡ
漷	*kʰʷaːɡ, *qʰʷraːɡ
霩	*qʰʷaːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuò (kuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwok³, gwok³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuò
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuo⁴
    • Yale: kwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuoh
    • Palladius: ко (ko)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwok³, gwok³
    • Yale: kwok, gwok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwok⁸, gwok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuog³, guog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɔːk̚³/, /kʷɔːk̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: xwak

Rime
Character	霩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	鐸 (104)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	虚郭切
Baxter	xwak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hwɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwak̚/
Li Rong	/xuɑk̚/
Wang Li	/xuɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xwɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fok3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷaːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	霩
Reading #	1/1
No.	4761
Phonetic component	郭
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	霍
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷaːɡ/

Definitions

霩

1. (literary) Alternative form of 廓 (kuò, “broad; wide”)
2. ^‡ rain stopping and clouds dispersing